Challenge

100 million of Sahelian people have no access to decent housing and no alternatives to subsistence farming. Thanks to AVN program: rural families acquire better and cheaper homes; local farmers become independent NV masons and entrepreneurs; NV schools for children, NV health-centers for sick people, NV barns for farmers; local economy is stimulated, because scarce funds previously used for buying imported building materials stay in; the environment is protected: less CO2 emission, more trees.

Solution

We organize recruitment and on-the-job training of Nubian Vault builders in the Sahel, help them becoming autonomous NV entrepreneurs, and provide a developing pool of clients for them through our promotional, communication, and networking activities.
By 2013, 272 masons have been trained to the Nubian Vault technique, in Burkina Faso, Mali and Senegal. 1,943 Vaults (houses, schools, dispensaries, barns, churches, mosques...), have been built for over 13,000 beneficiaries.

Long-Term Impact

We stimulate the development of a market able to become self-sustainable. When it occurs, we withdraw from the territory, we target a new one and the program scales-up. Thus, if we harness the necessary financial, human, and strategic resources to maintain exponential growth of the program, as we did so far, we may in the long-term obtain key macro-economic and ecological impacts, benefiting 20 million people, 5-10% of the relevant population of the Sahel affected by 2030.

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